How badly do you want to prioritize it all?
What do to when you feel squirrely You know you love a lot of things. You know you have a hard time deciding what to do…how do you prioritize it all? Great news! For the next 4 weeks, starting now, I’m doing a series. It’s Time Management for the Distracted Entrepreneur. Recently, I polled my community (people just like YOU! Maybe YOU, actually!) Here is what you said. You want more Income. You want consistent routines. They want to be able to block your time in such a way that
This is the first thing you should do when you feel inbox overwhelm
How to slow down the continuous demands Today’s problem: the tyranny of the inbox. So many people say their inbox is driving them crazy, how they have too many emails, and that the demands are always coming at them. They are at the mercy of that inbox. Well, I have news for you. You may not like this. Ready? It’s probably NOT your inbox. To address JUST the inbox, there’s lots of programs where you can go to inbox zero and you can have this system and that system and
The Acting Deliberately Checklist! Actions to take NOW to Generate Results FAST!
Want time for FUN without guilt? Read this. Before I get started on today’s topic, please help me help you with a 3 minute, 2 question survey about managing your time as a distracted entrepreneur HERE please and thank you. And now, onto our topic: What is a deliberate checklist? It’s an effective way for you to take actions now to generate the results you desire quickly…without as much effort. Where did this topic come from? Well, I was speaking to a client this week who said to me,“I would
Why having fun is not bad for you
The counterintuitive way to get more done Happy summertime! It’s interesting – FUN has been coming up a lot lately. I received an email from somebody asking, ‘Should business be fun?’ This company takes six figure people and brings them into the seven figure realm…and they were asking the FUN question. There are loads of reasons why fun is so poorly considered, and they generally come from our upbringing. You might hear, in your head: “You must work hard and it must be difficult.” “You must sit for that
Why time management in the summer is not bad for you
Be true to yourself: juggle yet enjoy After a week off on a beautiful full-on summer vacation, I am ready to talk to you today about why time management in the summer is not bad for you. You may be feeling as I feel sometimes – an overwhelm regarding summer. Why is this? Well, summer can produce a lot of new emotions that result in what I’ll call ‘squishy time’. Time where you want to allow a lot of time to relax, a lot of time to do projects, a
Counterintuitive thoughts that will change overthinking and dancing with overwhelm
Let’s get back to Whelm! It’s summer of 2023 and…we’re back! There’s essentially no (that I can see) leftover pandemic-shut-down things that affect us. Hooray! We have a lot of pent up desire to do a lot of things, and especially to have a lot of fun. I want that for you: to have a lot of fun! I want you to enjoy your summer, enjoy your life, and to do the things that really matter to you – and to be the person that you really want to be.
4 practical tips for blocking out your time mindfully this summer
An easy way to focus and get things done We are officially past the summer solstice, which in the Northern hemisphere is the longest day of the year. It is timely, therefore, to put our attention on the summertime; this season is very short and very precious here in the Northeast US. On Monday, June 19th (which is Juneteenth in the United States: a holiday to mark the abolishment of slavery) I ran a workshop to expand the Time Management in Summer for the Distracted Entrepreneur topic. In this article,
5 steps to make sure that your summer is not overwhelming
Balance your time this summer, step by step Summertime! Shifts. There’s gorgeous greenery around me, even though right here in New Hampshire where I live, it’s been pretty rainy lately. We do get beautiful moments of sunshine, which I very much enjoy. So if you are like me, summer brings shifts. Those shifts bring different ways to manage our time, especially as entrepreneurs, and particularly when you are an entrepreneur who considers themselves periodically scattered. It’s easy to get pulled in one direction or another direction. Summertime! Push and Pull.
5 steps to make sure your summer is peaceful, productive and profitable
You don’t have to choose between profit and enjoyment We are right on the cusp of the longest day of the year, and some of the kids are starting to get out of school. Perhaps if you’ve got kids, you’re feeling it already – that the summer has started for you. Sometimes, as entrepreneurs, we are stuck in this funky place where we want to really enjoy our summer….yet we feel the “pull” of “omg I can’t leave my company in the dust!” Summer might look like spending a lot
Got a Summer Distraction? This will solve it.
It’s just about summer, and what I’m hearing from some of my clients is that it’s a little hard to stay focused on their goals (aka what they “said they wanted to do”) because it’s so beautiful out. I really can resonate with that. I remember, especially at the beginning of my business, 14 years ago, I would find it difficult to really stay focused on my work, and business. I realized that it wasn’t so much for me that it was summer, but that I wasn’t as dedicated to